Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

We worship God through our questions.

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.